You never know when Dwight Howard is lying or not, because he has done it so often throughout his career. With that being said even Dwight couldn’t have been this delusional could he?
According to Bob Vander Weide Ex-President of the Orlando Magic, when Dwight was pouting and being indecisive about leaving Orlando he had this to say via the Orlando Sentinel.
Sentinel colleague George Diaz caught up with former Magic team president Bob Vander Weide earlier this week and Vander Weide relived the tumultuous time when the Magic were trying to convince Dwight Howard to stay in Orlando. Vander Weide told Diaz the situation became hopeless when he realized Dwight had become delusional.
“When Dwight told me he was an icon, guess what three names he used [to compare himself to]?” Vander Weide said. “Michael Jordan. Muhammad Ali. Nelson Mandela. … ‘Are you kidding me?’ We’ve been to the Finals once and you’re a great athlete, and you’re an icon like these three? I knew it was over. I knew there was no chance of keeping him.”
I don’t know Vander Weide, so I don’t know if he has some random incentive to make Dwight Howard look crazy or maybe at the time Dwight was crazy.
Whatever the case, Dwight denied he said it via Twitter.
@JamesJJ_ never said that its total bs jus to let u know.
— Dwight Howard (@DwightHoward) October 19, 2015
Now this is a man who denies how many kids he has on a daily basis, so who knows what the real truth is.